Aneela Zareen, Rabia Haq, Muhammad Salem, Mehmood Iqbal.
Effects of Probiotics in Shortening the Duration of Acute Diarrhea; a randomized control study.
Pak J Med Health Sci Jan ;12(2):471-3.

Aims: To compare the effectiveness of probiotics and ORS combination with conventional ORS therapy alone in shortening the duration of acutediarrhea in children. Methods: This is prospective comparative study done at Avicenna hospital Lahore in six months duration from March to September 2015. Results: Two hundred and thirty patients were enrolled in this study. They were divided into two groups. One hundred and thirteen were included in probiotics group and 117 were in control group . Earliest improvement in condition was seen in probiotics group 83(73%) patients shows improvement in 72 hours compared to 46 (39%) patients. Similarly stay in hospital was short in probiotics group within 72 hours (87 patients; 76%) as compared to control (17 patients ; 14.52% patients). Conclusion: Treatment with probiotics in addition to conventional ORS therapy resulted in shortening the duration of diarrhea and also shortened the hospital stay.

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